The Region 3 Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) Assembly was held last Thursday, July 23, in Okoboji.
Representatives from Buena Vista, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Lyon, O’Brien, Osceola and Sioux counties were on hand. Presentations were given on some of the various projects locally that have benefited through the program.
Motions were also made on issues that will be forwarded by five delegates who were voted on last Thursday to represent Region 3 at the statewide REAP Congress Aug. 29 at the statehouse in Des Moines. Michelle Wilson is the statewide REAP Coordinator for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. She says the issues identified in Region 3 are similar to ones that have been brought up in regional REAP assemblies in other areas of the state.
Wilson says state REAP funding is currently set to expire June 30, 2028. She says similar sunset deadlines for the program in the past have been extended by the Legislature.
Wilson says she’s grateful for the support REAP has received in the past from the Legislature and is hopeful that will continue.
(Courtesy fellow Community First Broadcasting station KUOO in Spirit Lake.)
